Christmas Morning

Christmas morning I set my alarm to get ready before waking the boys up.  Tim woke up when I was coming back into the room, and Timmy went from apparently asleep to climbing over Tyler on his way out of the bed in a split second!  Tim pulled him back into the bed and told him to relax a minute.  I interviewed the boys on the video camera for a few minutes while Tim got ready to go upstairs.  We let the boys take a look at the tree and all of the presents that had arrived over night before sending them upstairs to wake everyone else up.  The boys sat among the pile of presents waiting for their grandparents, aunt, and uncles to come downstairs.  It felt a bit like torture for all of us, but I love these first few pictures, and the range of joy, anticipation, and torment on their faces before they were allowed to start opening gifts!

Santa presents went first, and Timmy was able to read the tags and pass them out correctly this year!  Timmy's main request of Santa was for Skylanders Swapforce.  As usual, he was not surprised at all to receive his requested gift, but he was extremely excited about it!  He and his dad have been getting a lot of use out of it already!

Tyler asked Santa for an airplane and every time anyone asked him what he wanted Santa to bring, all he said was airplane!  Actually, the first present he opened was in Ohio, from Donny and Peggy, when he saw it his shoulders fell and he said, "I want a airplane!"  after I reminded him that was what he had asked Santa for and he had to wait for Santa to bring it to him, he was happy with that present and every other gift he received.  Little did he know that Santa would bring him several airplanes (and so would lots of other people!) so when he opened his second airplane he said, "Another airplane?! What in the World?!" and cracked all of us up!

The boys had a large, happy audience while they went through their gifts!

Timmy did Secret Shopping again this year, this time at his school.  We had him buy presents for everyone in his immediate family this year (you should have seen the expression on his 6th grade helpers face!) and he did a really great job.  Most of the women in Timmy's life got beautiful jewelry and most of the men received football related items!  I got a "Mom" plaque and Tim got a football handled screwdriver, which he put to use almost immediately putting toys together and batteries in!  Timmy was most excited about his gift for Tyler though, which he had wanted to give to Tyler immediately after buying it, and he helped Tyler open it quickly!

Tyler had a gift picked out for Timmy too, and gave him a sweet kiss when he delivered it!

After Timmy passed out his gifts, the boys opened their gifts from us too.  After that we took a break while Al and Elena made a wonderful breakfast for everyone and the boys got to check out most of the stuff they had just opened!

That wrapped up the first of four rounds of gifts on Christmas Day!